“The Amelia Peabody Series: NOT set in ancient Egypt. The author holds a PH.D in Egyptianology, and her love of the subject shines through her entire huge series. If you don't want to start at the beginning read:1.The Last Camel Died at Noon, 2. Seeing a Large Cat 3.The Ape Who Guards the Balance 4. The Falcon at the Portal 5.He Shall Thunder in the Sky. They are set in the late 1890's-early 1900's. Exciting reads, authentic info about digging in tombs in that era, and the other charactors who inhabit the pages are authentic people of the time. There is a mystery in each book but more than that, each book builds upon the prior one to create a real sense of growth in this family of amateur Egyptologists, and we come to care about them. There is the usual sort of thing: fights, romances, confused identities, but this series is to me on a different level than the usual mystery series.
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gilly 8 wrote this review Saturday, December 1 2007.
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